PSP, VITA AND PS3 DIGITAL STORES ARE SET TO CLOSE –
AND SOME GAMES AREN’T AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE
138 PlayStation games will no longer be available for purchase in any form when Sony closes the PSP, PS Vita and PS3 stores this summer, VGC analysis has revealed.
Earlier this week our analysis suggested that, in total,
around 2,200 digital-only games would disappear from the PlayStation marketplaces, though the vast majority would still be available on other platforms such as PC or Xbox.
However, the 138 titles listed below will essentially become lost forever on their respective platforms and are currently not available for purchase on any other formats.
Although users will still be able to redownload their previous purchases for the foreseeable future, from July 2 it will no longer be possible to buy games on the PS3 or PSP online marketplaces, and come August 27 the same will apply to the Vita too.
Games set to disappear following the PlayStation Store closures include the likes of Infamous: Festival of Blood, Echochrome II, Lumines Supernova, The Last Guy, Rain, Trash Panic, PixelJunk Racers, Tokyo Jungle, TxK and MotorStorm RC.
The majority of the PSP’s physical games were also made available digitally so PSP and Vita
owners could buy and play them. These will be gone too.For the purposes of clarity, we’ve not included any games that released physically in any territories (unless they’re only available in a foreign language such as Japanese). For example, Echochrome and Echoshift on PSP received physical releases in the EU, and the region-free nature of the system means you can still play them globally.
Our list also includes games that are available on the PlayStation Now streaming service, but not available to own.
It’s also worth noting that some of these games have already been pulled in certain regions: Lumines Supernova, for example, was pulled from the EU store in 2017 but is still available in North America. Since digital-only games continue to release to this day, there’s also a chance that the list could grow.
Click over to our full
PlayStation Store closing analysis for a breakdown of the impact Sony’s closures will cause in terms of game preservation.
Journalist Brittany Vincent argued in a VGC column that the games industry needs to increase its efforts for preserving video games, before more titles are lost to time.
“The medium is priceless – and while many of us were careless in its infancy, there’s no real excuse these days not to archive every bit of the art form we’ve come to cherish, not with high fidelity capture cards, the ability to scan items and documents directly from our phones, and literal 3D printers,” she wrote.
“If we don’t want to see additional games lost to the sands of time, it’s time to start getting serious about preservation – before it’s too late.”
THE 138 PLAYSTATION GAMES THAT SOON WON’T BE AVAILABLE TO BUY
ANYWHEREPSP
101-in-1 Megamix
Ape Quest
Armored Core: Last Raven Portable
Armored Core: Silent Line Portable
Armored Core 3 Portable
Beats
Black Rock Shooter – The Game
Brandish: The Dark Revenant
Carnage Heart EXA
Cho Aniki Zero
Cladun: This is an RPG!
Creature Defense
Crimson Room: Reverse
Dissidia 012 Prologus: Final Fantasy
Go! Puzzle
Gravity Crash Portable
Hot Shots Shorties Blue Pack
Hot Shots Shorties Green Pack
Hot Shots Shorties Red Pack
Hot Shots Shorties Yellow Pack
I am an Air Traffic Controller Airport Hero Tokyo
Kurulin Fusion
LocoRoco: Midnight Carnival
NeoGeo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting
No Heroes Allowed!
Numblast
Patchwork Heroes
Piyotama
Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign
Super Stardust Portable
Susume Tactics!
Talkman Travel: Paris
Talkman Travel: Rome
Talkman Travel: Tokyo
Thexder Neo
PS3
Armageddon Riders
Blast Factor
Bomberman Ultra
Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD
Catan
Comet Crash
Crash Commando
Datura
Eat Them!
Echochrome II
Funky Lab Rat
Hamster Ball
High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition
High Velocity Bowling
Infamous: Festival of Blood
Kung-Fu Live
The Last Guy
Legasista
Linger in Shadows
Lumines Supernova
Magic Orbz
Magus
Novastrike
PixelJunk 4am
PixelJunk Racers
Planet Minigolf
Punisher: No Mercy
Rain
Savage Moon
Spelunker HD
Super Rub a Dub
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars
Tales from Space: About a Blob
Trash Panic
Wakeboarding HD
PS VITA
Battle Rockets
Bodycheck
Boss!
Breakquest Extra Evolution
Chronovolt
Coconut Dodge Revitalised
Die!Die!Die!
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable
Ecolibrium
Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims HD!
Flying Hamster HD
Frobisher Says!
Furmins
The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character
Indoor Sports World
Jungle Rumble Freedom Happiness and Bananas
Kilka Card Gods
Knobswitch
Lemmings Touch
Let’s Fish! Hooked On
Licky The Lucky Lizard Lives Again
Magical Beat
Malicious Rebirth
Maliya
Men’s Room Mayhem
Monsterbag
Murasaki Baby
Nekoburo Cats Block
Ninja Usagimaru: Two Tails of Adventure
Open Me!
Orgarhythm
Pinball Heroes Complete
PlayStation Vita Cliff Diving
PlayStation Vita Fireworks
PlayStation Vita Table Soccer
PulzAR
Puzzle by Nikoli V Slitherlink
Puzzle by Nikoli V Sudoku
Reel Fishing Masters Challenge
Ring Run Circus
Run Like Hell!
Sketchcross
Sokoban Next
Squares
Stardrone Extreme
Stranded a Mars Adventure
Sumioni: Demon Arts
Super Stardust Delta
Surge Deluxe
Table Ice Hockey
Table Mini Golf
Table Top Racing
Table Top Tanks
The Hungry Horde
TXK
Vitamin Z
Z-Run
VITA & PS3
Bentley’s Hackpack
Big Sky Infinity
Deathmatch Village
Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock
Foosball 2012
Germinator
Gravity Crash
Motorstorm RC
Ms Germinator
Murasaki Mist Akara’s Journey
When Vikings Attack!
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